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Total number of records: 1252
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 546 |
| Brotherton Collection | 128 |
| Leeds Russian Archive | 72 |
| Herbert Read Collection | 45 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 39 |
| Maurice de Sausmarez Archive | 17 |
| English Literature | 13 |
| Janina and Zygmunt Bauman | 12 |
| Quaker Collection | 11 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 9 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009) | 102 |
| Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed To Inquire Into the Education of the Poor | 38 |
| Orton, Harold (1898-1975) | 38 |
| Sanderson, Stewart (1924-) | 23 |
| Barry, Michael V (1935-) | 22 |
| ObʺEdinenie Rossiiskikh Zemskikh I Gorodskikh Dei︠At︡Elei | 22 |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) | 20 |
| Dunn, Ginette | 17 |
| Wright, Peter | 15 |
| Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 14 |
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Miscellaneous papers relating to Parliamentary grants to local authorities for educational purposes, 1925-1928; compiled by the Association of Education Committees
1925-1928
Title stamped in gold on front board gives the dates as '1925-1935'. On the spine is stamped the word 'GRANTS'. The cover is green
Papers and correspondence of the North of England Education Conference
1903-1992
Comprises the administrative papers and correspondence, conference papers and printed reports of the North of England Education Conference in its many different venues around the country between 1903 ...
Pamphlet collection compiled by Lord Boyle of Handsworth
Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle Baron (1923-1981)
c.1945-1981
1141 pamphlets held in 40 pamphlet boxes on 5 shelves. Sorted and boxed by broad subject. Possibly the bequest of Lord Boyle, ca.1981 Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, P.C., C.H....
Papers of the Association of Education Committees
1904-1977
Minute books, papers and files of correspondence of the Association of Education Committees.
Film
[1960-1976]
Film and stills on traditional ropemaking and clog-making from Sam Hanna's series of films on traditional English crafts; film taken during a trip by members of staff of the Institute of Dialect and F...
Institute Staff Papers
University of Leeds. Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies
1952-1983
This subfonds contains papers created and collected by members of staff at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS), and includes correspondence; papers relating to the research interest...
Student Research Papers
1942-1992
The items in this subfonds present original research in Folklore and Folklife Studies, English Language and Dialectology. The subject areas covered include custom and belief, traditional narratives, t...
Non-Student Research Papers
[1880] - 1992
This subfonds contains provenanced and unprovenanced papers, created and collected by students, academics and other researchers and informants from outside the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studi...
Sound Recordings
1920s-1981
This subfonds contains both original and master copy fieldwork recordings, made primarily in England by fieldworkers collecting dialect data for the country-wide English Dialect Survey (later publishe...
Fieldwork
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1945-1974
Correspondence between Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth regarding linguistic research and surveys, their collaboration on a linguistic atlas of England and the development of an English dialect questionna...
General Administration
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1948-1968
This sub-subseries contains documents relating both to general University administration, and to Harold Orton's day-to-day co-ordination of the Survey of English Dialects (SED). This includes receipts...
Academic-Related
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1935-1975
Documents in this sub-subseries relate to Harold Orton's lecture tours and visits in Europe and North America, organised through two particular exchange schemes, and also to temporary (visiting profes...